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Finance : Consumer price inflation in India went through three phases in 2022. A rising phase up to April 2022 when it crested at 7.8 per ce...
Fema / RBI : South Asia is most vulnerable to food inflation, given the large segment of our populations battling poverty. Moreover, this is a ...
Finance : Central Government, in consultation with RBI, has fixed the inflation target for the period beginning from the date of publication...
Corporate Law : The recent period of high agricultural commodity prices is most likely over, say the OECD and FAO in their latest 10-year Outlook....
Income Tax : Vehicle owners will have to pay more towards insurance for their vehicles as the enhanced motor insurance rates has come into effe...
Fema / RBI : Sub-section (iv) of the Section 193 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 stipulates that no tax shall be deducted from any interest payable...
Custom Duty : All the Custom duty Notification including Tariff and Non Tariff issued by Custom department in respect of budget proposals/provis...
Income Tax : Central Government, having regard to seventy-five per cent of the average rise in the Consumer Price Index for the Financial Year ...
Just the other day at lunch we all colleagues were discussing about our school / college days.. and one of my seniors said they had only doordarshan on tv while juniors discussed about nickelodean, hungama and so on. Seniors were nostalgic about the Vada Pav they had in break time for Rs 5/- and juniors were boasting about burgers in Mc Donalds.
Central Government, in consultation with RBI, has fixed the inflation target for the period beginning from the date of publication of the Gazette Notification (August 5, 2016) and ending on the March 31, 2021, as under: Inflation Target: Four per cent.
The proper running of any country needs a cleaver regulatory framework that should not be very lengthy and complex in itself but should be capable enough to keep a proper regulatory checks on everything so that things and situations don’t go out of control.
The recent period of high agricultural commodity prices is most likely over, say the OECD and FAO in their latest 10-year Outlook. But the two organisations warn of the need to be vigilant as the probability of a major price swing remains high.
Middle class who had been battling inflation for last so many years has been offered a chance to hope for a stream of some secured real income by way of interest on their hard earned savings at a rate that will increase with increases in levels of inflation.
Sub-section (iv) of the Section 193 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 stipulates that no tax shall be deducted from any interest payable on any security of the Central Government or a State Government, provided that nothing contained in this clause shall apply to the interest exceeding rupees ten thousand payable on 8% Savings (Taxable) Bonds, 2003 during the financial year.
Inflation eats into your money and reduces its purchasing power. To tackle this, you need to invest in products that beat inflation. Inflation-indexed bonds, due to be floated later this month, may be one such option.
It is a known fact that Indian economy has been hit hard by continuous inflation over past few years now and inflation has been on a rise unabated. In such a situation when country is passing through an inflationary phase, the returns, incomes, yield- everything fetches you a lesser value as inflation dents the value of return. Higher inflation results in negative or lower returns on financial instruments.
Vehicle owners will have to pay more towards insurance for their vehicles as the enhanced motor insurance rates has come into effect from April 01. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority -IRDA has issued a notification to this effect. As per the new rates, private car owners would have to pay premium depending on the size of the vehicles.
The Central Statistical Office released the quick estimates of national income, consumption expenditure, saving and capital formation for 2010-11 today. Savings and investment data for 2010-11 are new and all other data are revisions to earlier releases. GDP at factor cost at constant (2004-05) prices (real GDP) grew by 8.4 per cent in 2010-11. This growth was at the same level of 8.4 per cent in 2009-10. (As per earlier data real GDP growth was 8.5 per cent and 8.0 per cent in 2010-11 and 2009-10). Demand side GDP at constant market prices grew by 9.6 per cent in 2010-11 over a level of growth of 8.2 per cent in 2009-10.
